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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 10:19:21 CDT

Hi,
  Did you check the video drivers on your ubuntu installation, if VMD
ran initially, and then began to fail, its either some sort of video driver
problem, or you have an issue in your .cshrc or something similar.

What happens when you run VMD with: vmd -dispdev text

Beyond that, please check the Linux release notes:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/linuxrelnotes.html

Cheers,
  John

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:13:22PM +0000, ZT Yew wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 (both 32 and 64bit versions) on a mac-pro (8 core, Geforce 7300 GT) running ubuntu 7.10rc. Installation went fine. I've download and installed all the latest drivers for ubuntu.
>
> The first time running vmd is fine and perhaps the 2nd and 3rd time, but after that, vmd doesn't load. All I see is a very quick flicker of the screen coupled with a quick opening and closing of the vmd console on the bottom right. Another issue is not being able to run command line options like -pdb or -dcd (when vmd does work) even though the files load perfectly well if I do so manually via the vmd GUI.
>
> I'm not sure what's wrong? Anyone managed to run vmd smoothly on a mac pro with ubuntu 7.10rc?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ZT
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